Clothes-drier



(No Model.)

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CLOTHES DRIBB. No. 492,015.

P'atented Feb. 2l, 1893.

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Nrrn STATES ELIAS F. I-IINES AND HARVEY V. GIBSON, OF PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

CLOTH ES-DRIER.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 492,015, datedFebruary 21, 1893.

Application filed February 11, 1892. Serial No. 421,101. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that we, ELIAS F. HINES and HARVEY V. GIBSON, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Peoria, in the county of Peoria and Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSuspended Display or Clothes Racks; and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear,

and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in suspended display or clothesracks.

The object of the invention is to provide a rack with one or more setsof radial arms which may be suspended from the ceiling and soconstructed that it may be raised or'lowered at will for the purposeshereinafter set forth.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure l represents a sectionalelevation of the device and showing it ashung from the ceiling. Fig. 2is a plan view of the device below the dotted line x x Fig. l, andshowing parts broken away to show other parts. Fig. 3 is a perspectiveView of a bracket showing one end of an arm pivoted therein.v Figl is aperspective view of a section of a plate used in the device. Fig. 5 is aperspective View of a pulley and supporting socket used to suspend therack from the ceiling. Fig. 6 represents a perspective View of a capwhich is secured to a portion of the device, and which is provided withlugs to engage with the socket described in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is aperspective View of a projection or arm which is made integral with anupper plate of the device. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a lower armor projection which is made integral with a lower plate of the device.

A represents an upper plate having cast therewith, a series of radialarms or projections B. On the under side of this plate at the center iscast a raised collar C which is threaded in its interior and into whichscrews a tube D. The tube D may be made of any length desired. The lowerend of this tube is threaded and screws into a lower plate E similar tothe upper plate A. The lower plate E is simply placed in a reverseposition to the upper one (t. e. up side down). Each of the said platesis provided with a plate F on each of which l Vare cast two ears G G.

The plates F are also provided with an angling lug H which enters thehole I in the plates (Figs. 3 and 4) and which plates are held in placeby a set screw J. On the under side of the outer extremities of theprojections B of the upper plateA are cast two ears K K (Fig. 7) and toone of which may be attached a chain and pin L for inserting in theholes M M. Now pivoted between the ears G G of the plate F of the saidupper plate A are bars or arms N which are supported horizontally whenso desired between the said ears K K by the said pins L. Also pivotedbetween the ears G G of the lower plate E are the bars or arms N andthey rest horizontally when so desired between the raised lugs K ot' thearms B.

Within the tube D slides a smaller tube O (when the device is foldedtogether) and in order to retain said tube O within the tube D, thelower end of said tube O may be iiared or slightly expanded as shown,which retains the said tube O within the said tube D. The upperextremity of the tube O is surmounted by a threa'ded cap P which alsoprevents a third tube Q from slipping outof the'said tube O in themanner last above described. Now

the upper end of the tubeQ is secured within a head piece R (Fig. 6)which head is provided with two lugs S S one being placed diametricallyopposite the other. The said head is designed to be inserted in asuspended socket T, Fig. 5. In this socket two slots U U are cut in theform of an inverted L so that when the head R is inserted in said socketthe lugs S S may enter the slot U U after which the device is slightlyturned to the right or left as the case may be and the lugs descend intothat portion of the slots U U indicated'at U thus holding the devicesecurely in place. The socket T is made integral with a pulley V and asshown this pulley is held by the head of a screw W and revolves thereon.The said screw W is secured in the ceiling as shown.

A pulleyY has its bearing on a shaft placed between two ears Z on thehead R and over which passes a cord l which is secured by a screw eye tothe upper plate A as shown, while the lower end of said cord is providedwith a series of knots or knobs which when the device is drawn up may beslipped under IOO one of the slots 2 (Fig. 2) in the lower plate E thusthe device may be raised or held at any elevation desired.

When it is desired to raise the rack to the ceiling the cord l is pulleddown which operation raises the tube D and its parts, and allowingpthetube Oto slide into said tube D and the tube Q to slide within the tubeO thus the smaller tubes telescope within the larger ones and the deviceis raised and held in the manner above described.

In folding the rack together for transportation duc., the head R may bereleased from the socket T and the tubes allowed to slide together andthe pins L withdrawn from the holes in the ears K K andthe arms Nallowed to drop between the lower projections B of plate E as shown indotted lines and the lower arms Nare raised between the upper projections B of the upper plateAas shown in dotted lines.

The use of the pulley V is, that if the device is used as a display racka belt may be placed thereon and the rack kept revolving if so desiredbythe use of a motor or thelike.

IVe claiml. In a suspended display or clothes rack, a tube D havingsecured at either end thereof an upper and a lower plate each of whichare provided with a series of radial projections, the under side of eachof the outer extremities of said projections of said upper plate havingtwo ears formed therewith and provided with the pins L for the purposesset forth, and the upper sides of the outer extremities of theprojections on lower plate being provided with raised lugs each of saidprojections of plate being provided with a pivoted arrn for the purposesherein set forth and described.

2. In a suspended display or clothes rack, the tube D having secured oneither end thereof an upper and a lower plate, said upper plate having aseries of radial projections B made integral therewith and of the plateF having the ears G G cast therewith and pivotally supporting the arms Nsaid plates F being secured to the plate A and said arms N being held ina horizontal position by the pins L and ears K K on the said projectionsB for the purposes herein set forth and described.

` 3. In a suspended display or clothes rack, the tube D, having securedon either end thereof an upper and alower plate, said lower plate havinga series of projections B made integral therewith and of the plates Fsecu red to the plate E, said plates F having ears G G made therewith,the said ears pivotally supporting the arms N and said arms restinghorizontally on the raised lugs K for the purposes set forth anddescribed.

In testimony whereof we aiix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

ELIAS F. IHNES. HARVEY V. GIBSON. Witnesses:

DAVID L. WRIGHT, A. KEITHLEY.

